#289 Deathly Hallows Turtle

My younger daughter's suggestion for today's turtle was to make a turtle using only Deathly Hallows symbols.  Here is my fabulous  interpretation of her suggestion.  I see my artistic skills have not improved over the last 288 postings!  Still having fun though.

*I had to edit this post because I am a doofus.  I very carefully drew out that turtle... wrong.  I mixed up the circle and the triangle.  Sadly, this is not the first time I have made that mistake.  I made my daughter a T-Shirt over the summer and did the same thing.  Luckily it was noticed long before it ever made it to the shirt, but still, you'd think I would remember after that!
I tried it twice with the proper symbol and liked the head better when it was facing the same direction as the body.  I also decided to leave my screw-up on the post as well.

What was I thinking???

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#288 Follow the spiders, Harry

In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Hagrid tells Harry to "follow the spiders" in order to learn some important information.

He looks a little too happy here!

"Follow the spiders??!  Follow the spiders?  Why couldn't it be 'follow the butterflies'?" ~Ron Weasley

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#287 Turtle with a scar

Today's turtle has a Harry Pottar scar.  I chose a blue marble because in the movies Harry Potter has blue eyes. They are green in the books, but I like the blue marble better!

I'm not loving the cork body.  That is another one of those ideas that looked great in my imagination, but not-so-great in real life.  That's okay.  It gives me an excuse to use another one of these marbles later! Pin It

#286 More Harry Potter!

My plan was to do a Harry Potter turtle every day until Friday, but I'm not sure I have enough ideas for that!
We'll see.  Today I used my daughter's golden snitch 20Q game for the head and front "arms", bookmarks for the back legs, their tassels for the tail and my favourite book for the shell.

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#285 Harry Potter "stuff" Turtle

My seventeen year old has a whole shelf displaying some of her Harry Potter stuff.

I took her Deathly Hallows necklace and four wands from her dolls action figures and made a turtle tonight.

This week is all about Harry in our house as we prepare for the final movie to be released on DVD/Blu-Ray on Friday.  We are re-watching all the movies to remind ourselves of how the story unfolded.  Tonight is Year 4: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.   (If you are doing the math, you may notice that we should be finished a day early, that is because our daughter has to work one day this week, so we have to skip that night.  Movie seven is on Thursday and we will be watching the last one of Friday.  Release day.  11.11.11.) 

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